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Edward Wright (baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by building on the works of Pedro Nunes, and set out a reference table giving the linear scale multiplication factor as a function of latitude, calculated for each minute of arc up to a latitude of 75°. This was in fact a table of values of the integral of the secant function, and was the essential step needed to make practical both the making and the navigational use of Mercator charts. (From Wikipedia) More about Edward Wright:
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| | Books by Edward Wright: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: Certain Errors in Navigation, Detected and Corrected by Edw. Wright; With Many Additions That Were Not in the Former Editions (London: J. Moxon, 1657) (HTML at EEBO TCP)- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615, contrib.: William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London, on the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth: A New Physiology, Demonstrated with Many Arguments and Experiments (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1893), by William Gilbert, trans. by Paul Fleury Mottelay (multiple formats at archive.org)
Additional books by Edward Wright in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: Arte of dialing (London : Printed by Iohn Beale for William Welby, 1614) (HTML at EEBO TCP)- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure ; physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. (Excudebat Short, 1892), also by William Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: The description and vse of the sphaere· Deuided into three principall parts. Whereof the first intreateth especially of the circles of the vppermost moueable sphære, and of the manifold vses of euery one of them seuerally. The second sheweth the plentifull vse of the vppermost sphære, and of the circles thereof joyntly. The third contayneth the description of the orbes whereof the sphæres of the sunne and moone haue been supposed to bee made, with their motions and vses. By Edvvard Wright. The contents of each part are more particularly set downe in the table. (London : Printed by B[ernard] A[lsop] and T. Fawcet, for Iohn Tap, and are to bee sold at his shop at S. Magnus corner, 1627) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimenttis demonstrata. (Mayer & Muller, 1892), also by William Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: Havenvending. English (Imprinted at London : By G. B[ishop] R. N[ewberry] and R. B[arker], 1599), also by Simon Stevin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: Leeskaartboek van Wisbuy. English (Imprinted at London : By E. Allde for H. Astley, and are to bee solde at his shop, at the corner of S. Magnus Church, 1605), also by Cornelis Antoniszoon and Robert Norman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: On the loadstone and magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the earth (J. Wiley & sons, 1893), also by William Gilbert and Paul Fleury Mottelay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: The voyages and works of John Davis, the navigator (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1880), also by John Davis, John Jane, C. H. Coote, and Albert Hasting Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615: William Gilbert of Colchester, physician of London. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth. A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments. 1600. (Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1947), also by William Gilbert and Paul Fleury Mottelay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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![Title page of Edward Wright (1599) Certaine Errors in Navigation, arising either of the Ordinarie Erroneous Making or Vsing of the Sea Chart, Compasse, Crosse Staffe, and Tables of Declination of the Sunne, and Fixed Starres Detected and Corrected. (The Voyage of the Right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores, &c.), London: Printed ... [by Valentine Simmes and W. White] for Ed. Agas](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/wdpics/62/Q1294162.jpg)